Mo Kelman
5 days • May 29 – June 3, 2025
10 am – 4 pm, daily
Pricing
Early-bird (special rate through April 1, 2025): $650
Nonmembers (rate after April 1, 2025): $735
Members (rate after April 1, 2025): $661.50
Payment plans and scholarships available. For questions, reach out to Cristin McKnight Sethi: cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org.
In this experimental workshop, learn methods for building skeletal structures with rattan, bamboo, wire, and found materials. Techniques will include lashing and chaotic plaiting. On these frameworks, explore methods for building skins with gut, rice papers, and recycled netting. Coatings like paintable graphite, acrylics, shellac and kakishibu tannin will further modify surfaces. A series of guided exercises will prompt students to invent unique, original sculptural forms. All levels welcome.
$55 materials fee, payable to the instructor at the start of the workshop includes a variety of materials for students to use in creating their sculptural works.
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Instructor Bio:
Sculptor Mo Kelman (she/her) has shown her artwork in more than 100 exhibitions across the US, Europe, Japan and Korea and is a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts.
She has mounted solo exhibitions at Boston Sculptors Gallery; Chazan Gallery and Providence College in Rhode Island, and the Silk Weaving Studio in Vancouver. Kelman’s work has been featured at the Newport Art Museum and Brown University; in New York at Westbeth Gallery, 1155 Avenue of the Americas Gallery and Narthex Gallery; Cleveland Museum of Art; British Crafts Center in London; International Shibori Symposia in Nagoya, Japan and Hong Kong; International Textile Symposium in Kyoto, Japan; and Cheongju International Craft Biennale and Heyri Art Factory in South Korea.
Kelman, who lives in Providence, is a professor emeritus of art at the Community College of Rhode Island and has taught classes and workshops at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland, Snow Farm, Maiwa (Vancouver), Zijdelings (Netherlands), Fibres West (Australia), Massachusetts College of Art and RISD. mokelman.com
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Withdrawal Policy
If your notice of withdrawal is received by the early bird deadline for this workshop, you will receive a 50% refund of your workshop fee. Due to the scheduling nature of these classes and arrangements for instructors, no refunds are available after that. We will be happy to provide you with a receipt for your donation to Textile Center for any forfeited tuition. Please make this request in writing to cmcknightsethi@textilecentermn.org.
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